Massage

Massage is one of the oldest healing disciplines. It can help boost immunity, reduce stress, stimulate detoxification and improve adrenal function.

Our massage therapists specialise in four types of therapeutic massage:

Shiatsu is a traditional Japanese healing therapy involving the application of body weight through the fingers, forearms and feet, to apply pressure to special points on the body. This is combined with joint rotations, joint manipulation and stretches to treat the patient holistically.

Shiatsu therapy can promote the prevention and recovery of illness by stimulating the immune system and the body’s natural healing power. Common conditions that are alleviated with the use of shiatsu include back pain, headaches, neck stiffness, joint pain, reduced mobility, digestive problems, depression and stress.

Fertility Massage helps to prepare the body for pregnancy, whether you are having IVF treatment or trying to improve your health before conception. The technique improves circulation and increases blood flow to the reproductive organs. It also helps stimulate the body’s natural hormones, improving your chances of conception. Fertility massage aids relaxation and helps the body deal with stress, a leading cause of infertility. It can also help treat a number of gynaecological issues that contribute to infertility such as irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and endometriosis. Fertility massage can be combined with other forms of TCM for optimum results.

Chinese Remedial Massage (Tui Na) is a TCM practice that has been used to treat a variety of ailments for more than 2000 years. It involves brushing, kneading, pressing and rubbing the areas between each of the joints, known as the eight gates, to open the body’s qi and get the energy moving in both the meridians and the muscles. Instead of providing more general treatment for the body, Tui Na focuses on treating a specific problem. The practitioner uses massage and acupressure to treat a range of conditions including back pain and chronic stress-related disorders of the digestive, respiratory, and reproductive systems.

Remedial Massage is a therapeutic massage that helps restore health to injured muscles and tissues, including tendons and ligaments. Your massage therapist may use one or a number of different types of massage to relieve your symptoms, including deep tissue or sports massage. Remedial massage is often used to treat sports injuries and posture-related injuries including muscular tightness, sprains, stiffness, lactic acid build-up, back pain and headaches. The style of massage is quick and vigorous with deep penetrating stroke work, aimed at restoring the soft tissue of the body to its optimal state. It may be combined with other forms of therapy including physiotherapy and exercises like tai chi and oi gong.